Business

Resolved a split among the lower courts in decision holding that a business partner could recover treble damages in civil action for fraudulent diversion of a partnership’s cash distributions.

In the case of a nurse suing a staffing agency for whom she worked, then the medical center at which the agency placed her, clarified the case law regarding privity and claim preclusion, deciding that the medical center was not in privity with a staffing agency for the purposes of claim preclusion.